Pesquisa-formação no Colégio Municipal Estephânia de Carvalho: entrelaçando narrativas, experiências e (trans)formações

Abstract

The present dissertation focuses on a research-formation developed at the Colégio Municipal Estephânia de Carvalho (COMEC), which is part of the Postgraduate Program Processos Formativos e Desigualdades Sociais of the Faculdade de Formação de Professores at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FFP/UERJ), located at the neighborhood of Laranjal in São Gonçalo. The objective was to promote time-space contex for the exchange of experiences and (re) collective construction of memories of the school and the life history of its patroness, Maria Estephânia Mello de Carvalho, through six workshops developed with two groups; one class of 7th grade, and next, a mixed group of students from middle school. First, a survey was carried out on educators who excelled in the city of São Gonçalo, using newspaper and internet sources .Thus, during the literature review, the "outstanding educator" Estephânia de Carvalho was defined, due to the fact that the city's main square and a municipal school were named after her, while at the same time observing that her life story is intertwined with the history of education in São Gonçalo. From the (auto ) biographical approach , our theoretical-methodological reference affirms a way of doing research that translates into research-formation, working with the concepts of outstanding educator, experience, place of memories , among others .Above all , we see COMEC as a place of memories , a powerful space for producing and storing stories that, when they are renamed , value the school and its subjects. With this, we seek to promote spaces for the production of narratives and experiences, through workshops in which the formation of all those involved, including the researcher, were present, while rewriting and resignifying the history of the school, its students and its patroness .We thus identified a universe that has been little explored in the school, in which attentive listening of students' life histories enhanced their appreciation, this was done while we intertwined the history of the school and the educator Estephânia de Carvalho. It was reaffirmed that local history is important to understand how the school is today and to show that the school environment can extrapolate school content, broadening the conception of education throughout life.